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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 30 May 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Part of the problem could be the VGA16 Xserver (you are
> using the VGA16 server, aren't you?).  It is particularly
> slow for that sort of thing.
>
Yes, vga16.  The card in this machine is Trident TVGA 9000i, 512KB.  There
is a Trident xserver (for the 8900 and 9000 cards), as I recall, but I
could not get it working with this card.  I therefore resorted to the
vga16 xserver.

> OK, Netscape 3.04 is looking better and better.  It seems to
> me that the best option for graphical browsing and mail on a
> 468 (16mb RAM) is BL1 and Netscape 3.04.
>
One of my big hangups with BL1 was that I could find no chat client for
it.  In terms of system resources, naim runs fine on a machine of this
class.  But I understood from a comment you made earlier that naim could
not be expected to compile/install on BL1, correct?  Here is the ldd
output for naim, if that will help in determining this:

ldd /usr/local/bin/naim
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40023000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40061000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40082000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40085000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

James